Investigation of vehicle time headways in Turkey

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Murat, Y S ^a   Gedizlioglu, E ^b  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Roads highways; Statistical analysis; Traffic engineering

Indexed keywords

INTERSECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTION MODELS; ROADS & HIGHWAYS; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC LANES;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

MODELING; ROAD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 34247526937     PISSN: 0965092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/tran.2007.160.2.73     Document Type: Article

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